From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [wēp] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], from [en].
Cognate with [sco], [sco], [stq], [is], [sla-pro].
**** Verb
[wept]
1. To cry ; to shed tears , especially when accompanied with sob bing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
2. * {{ RQ:Longfellow Evangeline | I
|passage=They WEPT together in silence.}}
1. To lament; to complain.
2. * [Numbers]
3. To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation .
1. [en] To produce secretion s.
2. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
3. * [IV]
4. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent ; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
5. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1893 | author=Edward William Cole | title=The best song book in the world | page=314
|passage=The willows WEEP and the moonbeams sleep / On the mariner's silent
grave.}}
1. [en] To weep over; to bewail.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1717 | author=w:Matthew Prior | title=The Dove
|passage=Fair Venus WEPT the sad disaster <br> Of having lost her favorite
dove.}}
1. * [XIII]
***** Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:weep
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en |beweep|forweep|read 'em and weep|weep in one's beer|weep
Irish|weepy|weeping willow|enough to make the angels weep|weep buckets
|weephole,weep hole |weep into one's beer}}
***** Translations
[to cry, shed tears]
- Adyghe: [ady]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] [present tense]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup] , [rup]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Balinese: [ban]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Cheyenne: [chy]
- Chinese:
- Coptic: [cop]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Drung: [duu]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Eastern Cham: [cjm]
- Egyptian: [rmj]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Even: [eve]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Fijian: [fj]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Gallo: [roa-gal]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kabardian: [kbd]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo] , [lmo]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Mpade: [mpi]
- Nahuatl: [nah]
- Nanai: [gld]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Norwegian:
- Nǀuu: [ngh] , [ngh] , [ngh]
- Ojibwe: [oj]
- Old Church Slavonic: [cu]
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pacoh: [pac]
- Paicî: [pri]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sotho: [st]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl] , [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ugaritic: [uga] , [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Võro: [vro]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A session of crying.
2. A sob.
3. * [1=en]
4. A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
*** Etymology 2
[en] of its cry.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A lapwing ; wipe , especially, a northern lapwing ( [Vanellus vanellus] ).
[en]